Monthly Archives: April 2013

There is no excuse for the number of poopy diapers and blows outs that I had to change and clean up before lunch. I mean, I hadn’t even finished my coffee before the first one. It’s completely unacceptable but more importantly what has his mom been feeding him?

I have to fill out some paperwork for my resignation so my manager emailed it to me. None of it has been filled out, so I wrote back asking what’s supposed to go in the blanks on the form and I’m told to think back to my roles and responsibilities and fill it out. Um…. That may work if I went to work last week and I’m quitting this week. But hello the last time that I was working was HALLOWEEN. Since then I’ve had a baby, moved across the country, and changed just about everything in my life. Roles and responsibilities? Feed a 12 pound human, make sure he gets the appropriate number of naps, feed my husband, and generally make sure the house doesn’t fall into the Earth. Unless I’m told otherwise that’s what I’m filling in the blanks with because I genuinely don’t remember what I spent 6 years of my life doing.

In other news, I’ve finally gotten around to taking pictures of the house, but only the upstairs so you’re going to have to stay tuned for the rest. In the mean time, here’s my upstairs:

Craft room

Master

Nursery

Guest room (this is where you would all be staying)

Lucas’ bathroom (aka guest bath)

I’ll get around to taking the rest eventually. Maybe I’ll get inspired as soon as we get our family room furniture delivered. Ugh! It’s taking FOREVER. Seriously. I’m over sitting on the floor and now that it’s pretending like it’s going to be nice weather I would love to sit on the sofa, watch Lucas play with his toys and enjoy a nice breeze. Looks like it’s going to be another few weeks before I get to live that dream.

And not because of the weather. For once, it’s 70 outside and sunny. I opened up the windows and enjoyed airing out the house

Molly was a little bit confused about the fresh air. I don’t blame her though because I was too.

My adorable Lucas woke me up at 7am and then decided that he wasn’t interested in going back to sleep. He was doing that this weekend but I was hoping it was just a phase. It’s looking like it’s actually not. So that’s….. great. Who doesn’t enjoy being woken up at 7 am EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. by a human alarm clock with a broken snooze button? So I started my day at 7 but doing laundry, picking up, washing laundry, all of the good stuff while my adorable child played with his toes, blew out his diapers, and then fell asleep for an early nap. Kid, you’re lucky that you’re cute because I would like to return you to the store by lunch time.

I crafted a wreath for the front door. I’ve been meaning to since we moved in but haven’t gotten around to it. So last week I went and got the materials for it and while talking about crafting to my sister, she sent me a photo of the wreath that I was planning on making but hers had different flowers that I totally liked better. So this weekend I went and exchanged my flowers and made my wreath while Lucas was busy crawling backwards:

The “R” is gold glitter

So there you have it. What a busy day. (5k Nike Fuel Points and it’s only 5)

I’m not sure if I posted it yet or not, but Angel and I finally got our Michigan license plates in the mail.

A little background- my adorable husband ordered a custom license plate in Arizona saying “GO B1UE” to represent the University of Michigan. So when we moved here, I jokingly told him that if he gets a UofM license plate in Arizona, than I get an ASU plate in Michigan. So that’s exactly what happened. I have to represent the University that gave me both a BS and an MBA so that I can stay home and sew and talk to my baby about his poopy diapers. You know those stories about people with a Masters degree who don’t use it? Yep. Living the dream.

I had a busy afternoon while Lucas was down for a long nap that I’m no doubt going to be paying for at 5am tomorrow.

First, I hung all of the photos and art that I’ve been stacking up in the Living Room:

Do your best to ignore the empty frames. I ordered prints the other day and they should hopefully be here soon.

Next, I made this awesome craft as inspired from Pinterest:

When I was done, I was so proud of myself, that I added it to the art/photo wall on the stairs that I started earlier:

And when I was done with that, i made dinner complete with fresh bread from the bread machine. Susie Homemaker? I believe so, today!

I posted a picture on Facebook of my Arizona artwork and so many people told me to open an Etsy shop between my crafts, baby shoes, embroidery, and diaper cakes… so I did! You can find it at: http://www.Etsy.com/shop/RavishingRivas

I mostly just decided to sell things so that I can continue to afford all of my crafts and sewing and am not planning on selling enough that I’m busy making things for other people instead of making them for my adorable baby boy.

So as promised, I have about 30 minutes to tell you all about our weekend in Chicago before Lucas melts down and it’s bedtime.

We had a BLAST, though! We stayed on Michigan Avenue at the Marriott. The highway was flooded going into the city thanks to all of the crazy weather that we’ve been getting, so we had to detour though the awesome parts of Chicago on the south side that you hear about on the news. Luckily, we did that with everyone else traveling on I-94 so it only took us 3 hours to go 4 miles through the ghetto.

When we got to the hotel, we had a few minutes before we had to get ready for dinner. Everyone was tired, but Angel and I and his aunt, who all bundled up Lucas and put him in a stroller and went wondering around Michigan Avenue. We made it to the Disney store before we picked up a cute onesie and pajamas and “Wreck it Ralph” picture book and then we called it a night and went to get ready for dinner.

With the time change, our 8:30 reservation at a super nice restaurant meant a 9:30 bedtime for Lucas, and wa-lah! We had a peaceful dinner and completely forgot that the baby was sleeping next to us. Lesson learned for the future! But it’s really good that he slept because this isn’t the kind of establishment that caters to families, children, or anyone not in a tie.

On Saturday we walked all. over. the. city. A total of 6 miles we calculated. We walked to Millennium Park and took many of the photos that I posted earlier, and then we walked to Buckingham Fountain (which sadly was empty for construction), and then we walked to the Field Museum and through the exhibits there. Then we walked back to Michigan Avenue and went to lunch before we decided that our feet were tired and we hitched a ride back to the shopping that was a little bit closer to the hotel. A few rounds through a pair of our favorite stores (Nordstrom Rack and Nike) we went to the hotel to change for dinner.

Another 8:30 reservation, another quiet dinner at the City Grille which was another not-meant-for-children establishment. Luckily, we have the World’s Best Baby who was a trooper and probably fared the poor service the best out of our table. I’ve had poor service before, but I’ve never had a steak knife dropped down my back before, so that was new and probably sums up the service.

Because the place was so poor and because we ran out of time to tour the observatory at the top of the Hancock building that we were staying next to, we had Sunday Brunch on the 95th floor at the Signature Room viewing out over Lake Michigan and the city. It was beautiful! But when we were done it was time to get in the car and make the drive home.

Vacations are always too short.

Those are the Cliff’s Notes version of the weekend because I have an early melt down on my hands and need to run.

This commercial seriously makes me cry every time I see it. The marketing people must test their commercials on a room full of first-time, sleep deprived, moms and as soon as we cry go: "Yep, nailed it."